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Other cities and towns have teetered at the edge of financial disaster lately, but Detroit, the capital of America’s auto industry and once the nation’s fourth-largest city, has just become the most striking test case for a key question: Can a city that has fallen so far be …

We chose to focus our cameras on Detroit out of a gut feeling that this city — often heralded as the birthplace of the middle class — may well be a harbinger of things to come for the rest of the country.

IT IS hardly news that the city of Detroit has been in long-term decline, a victim of everything from the problems of the “big three” carmakers to family breakdown, crime and middle-class flight, both black and white. But the scale of the recent collapse has caught even hardened …

The Tigers’ win Thursday over the Yankees lifted spirits in Detroit, and more playoffs are good for business.

If there is any place in a gloomy nation that is better off right now than it was four years ago, Detroit would be it.

The Motor City, with its thousands of blighted houses, auto-industry layoffs and dwindling population, became a symbol of economic despair during the depths of the recent recession. Even now, southeast Michigan bears the scars of that downturn and …

The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses for its workers and a promise to reopen an assembly plant in Tennessee as part of its tentative new contract with General Motors, according to people briefed on …

The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses for its workers and a promise to reopen an assembly plant in Tennessee as part of its tentative new contract with General Motors, according to people briefed on …

The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the nation’s poverty rate grew to 15.1% in 2010, an increase for the third year in a row, and that median household income declined in 2010. Pew Research Center reports have documented the impact of the Great Recession and shaky recovery on Americans’ wealth, work lives, personal finances and emotional well-being — finding, for example, that more than half of working Americans report a job-related hardship.

Read D’Vera Cohn’s story at pewsocialtrends.org on the latest Census Bureau findings and review of recent Pew Research Center reports that help put them in context, including:

ON DECEMBER 16th, 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama met in Chicago with key members of his economic team to discuss their response to the deteriorating economic situation. Just two weeks earlier, the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that 533,000 jobs had been lost in November, after a decline of 302,000 in October. According to the latest output figures, the economy had contracted by 0.5% in the third quarter, and much worse was …

Even as states around the nation breathed a sigh of relief on Monday that the United States would probably not default after all, and that the federal government would continue to pay its bills this week, they began to brace themselves for …

State governors meeting in Utah on Saturday urged a speedy resolution to the deadlock in Washington over lifting the U.S. debt ceiling to avoid what they called an embarrassing default on U.S. obligations.

Faced with a deepening recession two years ago, the Obama administration injected billions of dollars into Medicaid, the nation’s low-income health program. The money runs out at the end of this month, and …

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